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Moeka Minami
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Moeka Minami is a Japanese association football player born on December 7, 1998, in Saitama Prefecture. She competes as a defender, specifically a centre-back, and speaks Japanese. Her professional career began in 2017. She has played for Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies and Brighton WFC.
Minami has represented Japan in international competitions, including the women's tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics and the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup. Her name is written as 南萌華 in her native language and みなみ もえか in kana.
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Key facts
- 2014
- Japan U-17
- 2018
- Japan U-20
- 2019
- Japan
- 2025
- Brighton & Hove Albion
- Date of birth
- ( 1998-12-07 ) 7 December 1998 (age 27)
- Place of birth
- Yoshikawa , Saitama , Japan
- Height
- 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
- Position
- Centre back
- Current team
- Brighton & Hove Albion
- 0000 2016
- Urawa Reds
- Years
- Team
- 2017 2022
- Urawa Reds
- 2022 2025
- Roma
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- Brighton WFC
- Position
- Centre-Back
- Nationality
- Japan
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Saitama Prefecture
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Participant in
- 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Urawa Red Diamonds Ladies
- Position played
- defender
- Mass
- 62
- Image
- Supercoppa di calcio femminile 2022, Moeka Minami, festeggiamenti 55 (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 172
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- date of birth
- 1998-12-07
- start of work period
- 2017-00-00
- social media followers
- 3590
- Commons category
- Moeka Minami
- name in kana
- みなみ もえか
- name in native language
- 南萌華
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Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 16 May 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 07:21, 20 April 2026 (UTC)
Moeka Minami (南 萌華, Minami Moeka; Japanese: [mina̠mi̠ moe̞ka̠]) born 7 December 1998 is a Japanese professional footballer who plays as a defender for Women's Super League club Brighton & Hove Albion and the Japan national team.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Moeka Minami” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.